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The UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) is the United Kingdom's largest university space research group. MSSL is part of the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London (UCL), one of the first universities in the world to conduct space research.
Used for the first launch by Rocket Lab of their Atea 1 suborbital rocket. New Zealand: Mahia Peninsula: 2017– 42 [89] 13,000 kg [90] Lunar Launch site built and operated by Rocket Lab. First commercial spaceport in the southern hemisphere.
On 23 November 2022, NASA awarded the launch of the remaining CubeSats to Rocket Lab, with the launches to be performed by two Electron rockets starting in May 2023. The first of the two Rocket Lab launches successfully took place on 8 May 2023 at 01:00 UTC. [1] The second and final of these launches successfully lifted off on 26 May 2023 at 03 ...
Rocket Lab on Friday said it had launched its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand, the SpaceX rival's first flight since a mission failure in September. The previous mission ...
[74] [75] [72] Rocket Lab's launch business booked revenues of $13.5 million in 2018, $48 million in 2019 and an estimated $33 million in 2020. [72] Rocket Lab spent somewhere between $250 million to $300 million of the cash gained from going public to develop Neutron. [76] Rocket Lab aimed to launch Neutron by 2025. [77]
With just the Electron, Rocket Lab is generating over $300 million in annual revenue. Add in the Neutron, and this can grow into billions of annual sales by 2030. RKLB Operating Income (TTM) Chart
Image source: Rocket Lab USA. Since 2021, Rocket Lab has been developing its medium-lift Neutron rocket. This launch vehicle will have a significantly larger payload capacity of 13,000 kilograms.
In June 2020, with a new Electron launch vehicle built every 18 days, Rocket Lab was planning to deliver monthly launches for the remainder of 2020 and into 2021, including the company's first launch from Wallops LC-2 in 2023 and a mission to the Moon for NASA aboard Electron and Rocket Lab's spacecraft bus platform Photon in 2022. [2]